Toyota used to host free car giveaways and give workers 12% bonuses. They promised workers would "retire as millionaires." Now Toyota workers can’t even affo...
at 0:05: “I totaled a car last week and I can’t afford to replace it”. I feel like there is a bit of undue entitlement in that statement. Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?
I have no love for Toyota or any other mega corp, and I think the bigger issue in this article is the very first statement in the interview: “I spent three and a half years building cars and I can’t afford a home yet”. That is a big problem, but I wouldn’t attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.
Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?
Yes, as everything around being a worker is designed for having a car. Should people be punished by loss of income and healthcare for, we don’t know what it was, a lapse of attention, black ice in a corner, you name it?
at 0:05: “I totaled a car last week and I can’t afford to replace it”. I feel like there is a bit of undue entitlement in that statement. Should any worker be able to comfortably replace a car that they destroyed?
I have no love for Toyota or any other mega corp, and I think the bigger issue in this article is the very first statement in the interview: “I spent three and a half years building cars and I can’t afford a home yet”. That is a big problem, but I wouldn’t attribute that to greedy corporate employers exclusively.
Yes, as everything around being a worker is designed for having a car. Should people be punished by loss of income and healthcare for, we don’t know what it was, a lapse of attention, black ice in a corner, you name it?
I would, maybe not exclusively but have you seen how much the investor class profit and hoard?
But not exclusively.
You can point the finger to individual and foreign investors, but also to government policies (or lack thereof) that make that possible.
governments are on investors’ pockets too and i think this is the biggest problem